No decision has been made on whether a bill compensating victims of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will become law before Parliament dissolves, a minister said. Victims of physical,
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A judge has concluded that three girls were not systematically abused by members of a paedophile ring after an “unprecedentedly complex” High Court investigation. Sir Mark Hedley (pictured) had analysed
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Peers are hoping new laws to compensate victims of abuse in Northern Ireland can be rushed through Parliament before a possible election. Northern Ireland minister Lord Duncan of Springbank (pictured)
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A culture of “cover-up and denial” allowed decades of extensive abuse of pupils by monks and teachers at a west London Catholic school to continue, a report has said. The
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A former pupil at a Catholic boarding school has told how he was raped by a monk who he suspects to be his father. The witness, who cannot be named
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The main cause of the Metropolitan Police’s disastrous investigation into fabricated claims of a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster was “poor judgment and a failure to accurately evaluate known facts”,
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The Home Secretary has asked a police watchdog to investigate Scotland Yard’s disastrous investigation into fabricated claims of a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster. Priti Patel wrote to the Chief
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Pupils at schools linked to a religious order were “robbed of their childhoods” by the physical and sexual abuse which took place there, an inquiry has heard. Paul Reid, representing
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A former headmaster of a prestigious music school rocked by child sex abuse scandals has told an inquiry he “bitterly regrets” not knowing what was going on. John Vallins was
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Boris Johnson’s former preparatory school had a “Spartan and unforgiving” culture, where sexual abuse of pupils during the Prime Minister’s time there was not reported to authorities, the Independent Inquiry
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